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Jumpsuit Main Camp October 1972 Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Pfeister's Island; March April 1974 Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Pat Martin AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA CV990 Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Lead, AIDJEX pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX pilot study 1972 Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Pfeister's Island;March April 1974 Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Pat Martin AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study: snowmobile tracks lead to a hole in the ice. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Jumpsuit Main Camp Octtober 1972 Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX pilot study 1972. Jumpsuit camp from the air. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Midnight Sun: 1972 AIDJEX pilot study Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX pilot study 1972. Twin otter airplane. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX pilot study 1972. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Twin otter loading during evacuation of AIDJEX camp. Oil drums left as radar target; 1971 AIDJEX pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1972 AIDJEX pilot study. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Smoke bombs mark CRREL-USGS tellurometer site during NAVOCEANO "Birdseye" overflight 1972 pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1972 AIDJEX pilot study: W.Hibler center right, W.Weeks far right. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1972 AIDJEX pilot study: S.Ackley, W.Weeks Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1972 AIDJEX pilot study: W.campbell center Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1972 AIDJEX pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Pat Martin, 2 Soviets 1972 AIDJEX pilot study Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
B. Campbell 1972 AIDJEX pilot study Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
The CRREL-USGS group measured mesoscale deformation of sea ice Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1971 AIDJEX pilot study. The University of Washington boundary-layer studies used divers to assemble current-meter masts under the water and to map under-ice topography Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Tabata 1972 AIDJEX pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
View from beneath of diver descending. (University of Washington boundary-layer studies.) 1971 AIDJEX pilot study Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1971 Pilot Study: NASA, NAVOCEANO, and the U.S. coast guard made a series of remote-sensing flight over the AIDJEX strain array. The photo shows a NASA convair 990 making a low-level pass over the area Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 Pilot Study: Unmanned current-meter holes had to be reopened periodically. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 Pilot Study: 1972 pilot: calling for helicopter rescue, W.Campbell, unknown, W.Weeks; Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1971 AIDJEX pilot study: An emissometer was used by CRREL-USGS-AEROJET to measure microwave emissivity of sea ice (Far right W. Campbell) Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 Pilot Study: calling for helicopter rescue, W.Weeks. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study: Steve Ackley heads for rescue helicopter and dry clothing Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Steve Ackley AIDJEX 1972 pilot study Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 Pilot Study: Steve Ackley after rescue from snowmobile accident. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA convair 990. W.Campbell at left. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 Pilot Study: Steve Ackley waits for helicopter Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Barry Allen AIDJEX 1972 pilot study Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Rolf Bjornerd, field manager Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA convair 990, W.Campbell at left. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1972 pilot study: "Bam's Hut." Arne Arneberg "the human forklift", at left. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA Convair 990, W. (Bill) Campbell at left Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Alan Gill AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Dr. Wilson Goddard AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA convair 990: Andy Heiberg at right. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study: Dr.Wilson Goddard Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA convair990: Andy Heiberg at right. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Pat Martin. Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
1972 pilot study. J.D. Smith Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study: seated, Miles McPhee, standing George Bean Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Miles McPhee AIDJEX 1972 pilot study Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Ken Hunkins AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
Murray Stateman AIDJEX 1972 pilot study Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
AIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA cv990 Murray Stateman at right Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)
W. Weeks 1972 AIDJEX pilot study. Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center AIDJEX Web site (View photo detail.)